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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
GNU/Linux is a fundamental building block of the Internet. Many of the most visited Internet sites run some flavor of GNU/Linux. Along with GNU/Linux is other free and open source software that is used to build infrastructures for organizations. This book serves as a guide to engineers who want to use free and open source software to build their infrastructure.
There are a lot of very interesting and relevant topics that need to be visited when building an infrastructure. The topics I picked are based on my personal experience and on what I think is most relevant now and in the future. I dedicated entire chapters to topics that I believe deserve deeper discussion, such as Apache HTTP Server and kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). Although cloud computing is gaining in popularity, there are questions about infrastructure management that need to be answered, such as monitoring, logging, configuration management, and name service in the cloud.
In addition, if you want to be cloud agnostic, then you have to build services in the cloud that do not lock you in to a particular cloud provider. For instance, instead of using Google SQL, you may chose to use MariaDB installed on a virtual instance in Google Compute Engine.
Sachin Srivastava
Sachin Srivastava is a senior site reliability engineering manager who has extensive experience with virtualization and cloud computing. His experience as an entrepreneur in infrastructure cloud computing offers him deep insight into how businesses can leverage the power of the cloud to their advantage. Sachin is a firm
believer in free software and open source software. When he is not working on technology, Sachin likes to spend time enjoying the outdoors.
